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This is bbc news with me, christian fraser. president biden tells world leaders he wants to end the covid pandemic in 2022. but with still only a fraction of people vaccinated in africa, how realistic is the presidents target? the five permanent members of the un security council are meeting this evening in new york to discuss the future of afghanistan. the british foreign secretary says it will require a collective effort to stop afghanistan becoming a haven for terrorists. the world health org...

Reportedly killing at least seven people and injuring dozens more. taliban fighters remain on alert at checkpoints across the country fearing further attacks. the security risks come as americans continue to flee afghanistan on sunday another qatary charter flight brought 21 u.s. citizens to safety. the state department confirmed over the past several days hundreds of foreign nationals have left kabul for doha, bret? >> bret: trey yingst in kabul, afghanistan, thank you. up next one vaccine make...

So a big congratulations to the bishop. the bush open wrote how grateful they were and, you know, it was a tough decision for them and their family. theyre, of course, security risks. we wish them the best and send a hearty congratulations. >> yeah. trailblazer in many ways. >> anthony blinken is set to tackle some unanswered questions. the u.s. withdraw from afghanistan this week blinken will testify in front of the house foreign affairs committee tomorrow. and the senate foreign relations comm...

This as we are learning, as you mentioned, brian, in the leaked email obtained exclusively by fox news showing the state department refusing to allow rescue flights to land at a dod base writing to retired marine eric who chartered some of the flights said this. no charters are allowed to land at dod base and most if not countries in the middle eastern region. saudi arabia will allow charters to land adding you need to find another destination country and it cant be the u.s. either. the email un...

Infrastructure. china sees the opportunity to finish that missing piece of the puzzle in the belten road initiative that will connect central asia to the middle east, so they do see the opportunity, and its worth, for them, to take a gamble on the taliban, and youre right, the funding is going to come with very few questions asked about human rights, about democracy. so in that sense, there are some who believe that the taliban and china actually make a fairly good partnership. that doesnt mean ...

With folks coming over from afghanistan by the tens of thousands, a lot of us veterans and those of us that have dedicated our lives to security are very concerned with the security risks that this presents. >> jason: eli crane, thanks for your service and thanks to the men and women like you got up, served their nation and deserve better. thanks again. all right. the left is blown a gasket over the supreme courts decision not to block texas new abortion law. texas lieutenant gorden patrick fire...

As security risks, is there any way to justify the balance on how theyre treating veterans versus the refugees? >> no, there really isnt. its really scary for those of us that understand security and were fighting overseas. we understand the type of evil that were dealing with. we as americans tend to think of warfare in the terms of presidential elections and two and five and ten year cycles when our enemy thinks in decades and centuries. its problematic. people say eli, are you glad youre over...

Border and rolling out the red carpet for refugees flagged as security risks is there any way to justify the balance of how they are treating veterans versus refugees? >> there really isnt and it is scary for those of us that understand security and we are fighting overseas and we understand the type of evil we are dealing with and we as americans tend to think of warfare in terms of presidential election and 5 year cycles when our enemy thinks in decades or centuries and that is problematic. pe...

Been on track for a complete withdrawal of all remaining u.s. troops from kabul airport. again, that was due to happen by august 31st. now they are waiting to find out some specifics about exactly where the president stands. we anticipate hearing the military presence there is over. the other big question were still waiting to hear about is will there be any kind of enduring military presence or mission in afghanistan as far as helping to get american citizens out or any afghans who still need t...

Pentagon chose to run it right up against the august 31st deadline, given both the heightened security risks and how their evacuation appears to have significant draw down. >> joint base andrews, president biden and his wife, jill, getting on to air force one, heading over to dover air force base to deal with the arrival of that dignified transfer. a solemn moment. the arrival of those victims, service members, 13 who were killed in thursdays horrific suicide bombing at the kabul airport. nick p...